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obama and where mrs. clinton actually came down, but there were some rocky days, so let's talk about mr. obama specifically. >> they were happy that they took the stand. it was not the reason why this was succeeding. we did not have that during the revolution time. the problem of mistrust requires action. in order to rebuild trust, it is not speeches, it is not media. this will require work. this is an institution base, not just making the key decisions. you have to work with a team and so on. because the relationship that would happen after we have the president is based on the mutual respect. the people of egypt. the policy reflects the values of the u.s. and not just the interests. tavis: tell us what you were thinking about during those 11 days, having been arrested, blindfolded the entire time? the physical torture and others had to endure, but how much of this reprocessing during the 11 days? >> the hardest part no one knows where i am. i was taken out of the street, taken on the night of the 27th.
obama and where mrs. clinton actually came down, but there were some rocky days, so let's talk about mr. obama specifically. >> they were happy that they took the stand. it was not the reason why this was succeeding. we did not have that during the revolution time. the problem of mistrust requires action. in order to rebuild trust, it is not speeches, it is not media. this will require work. this is an institution base, not just making the key decisions. you have to work with a team and...
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how does poverty this time around become a front-burner issue between obama and romney? >> poverty only gets to be a front-burner issue in our country if people demand it. we need leadership. we can hope for leadership. we had our robert kennedy appeared we have others in the house and senate. but really, people running for office tend to respond to people who push. so we have to be talking about organizing can we ought to be talking about people who are doing what we're doing here and reaching people in terms of the mass media. i think now people are very important to this. i think that the next level of people who are also being shafted here, who are not have those poor but low-wage jobs and our stock, -- and are stuck. for 40 years, the have not had a chance to go up because there are not enough jobs of there. instead of getting angry and say we will vote for somebody who will give us some help, too many of them are voting for the side that says no more taxes. in fact, let's cut the taxes of the people at the very top. that is no good for these people, but they are vo
how does poverty this time around become a front-burner issue between obama and romney? >> poverty only gets to be a front-burner issue in our country if people demand it. we need leadership. we can hope for leadership. we had our robert kennedy appeared we have others in the house and senate. but really, people running for office tend to respond to people who push. so we have to be talking about organizing can we ought to be talking about people who are doing what we're doing here and...
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>> barack obama? >> ask us a hard one. >> cares about average people. >> of course obama is going to win on that. >> consistent? >> probably obama, because of the press -- [laughter] wait, i've got one word to say. obama on the same-sex marriage, right? in favor when he ran for the state senate, opposed when he ran statewide -- >> he evolved. >> that is called a flip flop if you are a republican. >> exactly right. >> straight forward? >> i give that to romney. obviously, fox has failed again. the power of the liberal press. >> the thing about john f. kennedy is that people knew he was privilege, but people like him anyway because he was a real person. >> what does that mean? >> you know what that means. he looked like a real person, not a ken doll. >> give me a break. [laughter] this kind of hagiography -- "he looks like a real person"? >> romney has been playing before conscripted american population, as opposed to the kennedys did look at the people standing in front of barack obama, at the kennedy
>> barack obama? >> ask us a hard one. >> cares about average people. >> of course obama is going to win on that. >> consistent? >> probably obama, because of the press -- [laughter] wait, i've got one word to say. obama on the same-sex marriage, right? in favor when he ran for the state senate, opposed when he ran statewide -- >> he evolved. >> that is called a flip flop if you are a republican. >> exactly right. >> straight forward?...
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they kn obama and his policies -- know obama and his policies. >> it is not as if obama never got an invitation, the man that they know. he was invited and apparently he was busy. >> we don't hear much about romneycare since the supreme court, or even before, and romney took days to get to it is at tax, as the republicans want to call it, and not a penalty, which is what he thinks it is. >> i agree with you, it is crazy. the most revolutionary legislation we have had is obamacare. the president will not speak of it and his opponent will not speak of it. it is insane. >> two signature issues off the table. >> attorney general eric holder and joe biden books spoke to the same audience about the border id laws, which they claims are being put in place to suppress the minority vote. >> we have seen this kind of thing in presidential campaigns for years. we saw it north carolina when jesse helms did it to suppress the black vote. >> why is it unreasonable to ask somebody for a picture i.d.? driver's license or something similar? >> they are not readily available items for people have. the
they kn obama and his policies -- know obama and his policies. >> it is not as if obama never got an invitation, the man that they know. he was invited and apparently he was busy. >> we don't hear much about romneycare since the supreme court, or even before, and romney took days to get to it is at tax, as the republicans want to call it, and not a penalty, which is what he thinks it is. >> i agree with you, it is crazy. the most revolutionary legislation we have had is...
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in 2008, obama got something like a 67% of the youth vote. only 69% of 18-to-29 voters are registered, only 46% say they plan to vote. >> they are young. >> they at enthusiasm in 2000 it. > -- 2008. >> the things that inspired them in 2008 are completely gone. it will be a miracle if they turned out like then. >> every young person i knew was canvassing. i don't know anybody who is doing that now. >> youth is the ultimate dissolution of " over experience -- distillation of hope over experience. i think the lighting is back in the bottle. >> if you listen to to the treasury secretary this week, the benefits are not going to be there for them. >> i now it is jobs. for college person graduating, it is pretty tough. >> the kids who are fought over are the ones with certain skills that are needed. they are not majoring in english literature. i was talking to an electrician the other day in newton, massachusetts. they closed out a program to train kids to be electricians because they had not woone kid apply. >> and everybody is looking for electric
in 2008, obama got something like a 67% of the youth vote. only 69% of 18-to-29 voters are registered, only 46% say they plan to vote. >> they are young. >> they at enthusiasm in 2000 it. > -- 2008. >> the things that inspired them in 2008 are completely gone. it will be a miracle if they turned out like then. >> every young person i knew was canvassing. i don't know anybody who is doing that now. >> youth is the ultimate dissolution of " over experience --...
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he repeated the line obama used, instead of stepping away and saying that obama thinks the way to increase employment is to hire bureaucrats. he got the wrong word, and he is paying 48. -- for it. >> the revered poster boy of the new republican party, scott walker, governor of wisconsin, immediately took governor romney to past and said this is wrong, we want teachers, firefighters, and police and that is why we provided for them in wisconsin. mitt romney calls barack obama out of touch. being called out of touch by mitt romney is a little bit like being called tasteless by lady gaga. [laughter] it just is really too much. >> do you prepare these? >> they are spontaneous. where is the prompter? [laughter] no, i really think that president obama talking about the private sector since -- 2001, there has not been a net single job created in the united states in the private sector. that is 80 years of george w. bush and at three and a half years of poor -- 8 years of george w. bush and three and half years of barack obama. that is a terrible, terrible record. >> what did you make of it jeb bus
he repeated the line obama used, instead of stepping away and saying that obama thinks the way to increase employment is to hire bureaucrats. he got the wrong word, and he is paying 48. -- for it. >> the revered poster boy of the new republican party, scott walker, governor of wisconsin, immediately took governor romney to past and said this is wrong, we want teachers, firefighters, and police and that is why we provided for them in wisconsin. mitt romney calls barack obama out of touch....
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the obama campaign says it's winning. the romney campaign says it's winning and to be quite honest we can't tell you whoa's right but tonight we'll lie out the choices. mitt romney looking presidential in a blue suit and teleprompter told thousands of supporters, the next four days count. >> the only things that stand between us in some of the best years we've known is lack of leadership. and that's why we have elections after off. this tuesday is the moment to look into the future and imagine what we can do, to put the past four years behind us and start building a new future. >> and barack obama looking presidential yesterday in a bomber jacket in air force one saying romney is not worth the risk. >> after four years as president, you know me by now. you may not agree with every decision i've made. you may be frustrated at the pace of change, but you know what i believe. you know where i stand. you know i'm willing to make tough decisions even when they're not politically convenient. >> let's start by assessing these cl
the obama campaign says it's winning. the romney campaign says it's winning and to be quite honest we can't tell you whoa's right but tonight we'll lie out the choices. mitt romney looking presidential in a blue suit and teleprompter told thousands of supporters, the next four days count. >> the only things that stand between us in some of the best years we've known is lack of leadership. and that's why we have elections after off. this tuesday is the moment to look into the future and...
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barack obama rebuilt it. and we are seeing it it work and respond. >> woodruff: do you think the storm could be making that much of a difference. >> i think the perception and you see activity and you see the chris christie thing. people are saying why is christie doing this, for his own mattal ambitions. >> i don't think there is anything like that when you are the governor of a state, a state you love that is in your heart and soul you feel an intense sense of stewardship. and when it gets wallopped by the storm the poll particulars seems irrelevant at this point. and as christie said, i don't care about the politics. if he is going to help me with my state, he is going to help the people of my state, then i'm grateful and i will work with him. so i think it is as simple as that. and i think he has been perfectly willing to hold the view that he's not a good steward of the economy, not good on budget negotiations but he's good on this. and we worked together on this. i don't think that is politically incons
barack obama rebuilt it. and we are seeing it it work and respond. >> woodruff: do you think the storm could be making that much of a difference. >> i think the perception and you see activity and you see the chris christie thing. people are saying why is christie doing this, for his own mattal ambitions. >> i don't think there is anything like that when you are the governor of a state, a state you love that is in your heart and soul you feel an intense sense of stewardship....
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obama had a little humility on him. and clinton came in to chat and then afterward they went into the briefing room together. and i remember thinking, oh, man, clinton is going to eat his lunch in here. this is just -- that's where he excelled and did so well. and then sure enough, obama did give him the podium. it was almost like a big fat early christmas present. >> before clinton comes in that afternoon, president obama had in a series of advisors from the reagan era and he was asking them, what did reagan do when he faced adversity? how much of that did he show the public? here you have president obama reaching back to the reagan era looking for advice. this is the other thing about these presidents, they all study each other, they read each other's biographies. >> obama started out so disdainful of clinton, in what he thought was kind of a small-bull -- gwen: and then he found out -- >> this guy kns something. >> you could argue what cristi said earlier, the counterterrorism policies and foreign policy. he's not go
obama had a little humility on him. and clinton came in to chat and then afterward they went into the briefing room together. and i remember thinking, oh, man, clinton is going to eat his lunch in here. this is just -- that's where he excelled and did so well. and then sure enough, obama did give him the podium. it was almost like a big fat early christmas present. >> before clinton comes in that afternoon, president obama had in a series of advisors from the reagan era and he was asking...
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. >> do you not think that for president obama, he has absolutely lucked out by this long, drawn-out primary season. where it is still uncertain about who is going to be the nominee? this is a lucky thing for him. we have gotten to know these candidates in a way that maybe we would not have known or would not have wanted to know. >> it will prepare him on policy and in every way on debate. he has gotten quite smart at stealing their thunder by doing a press conference on the same day as a primary, or something else like that. >> and he is still the president, he can still command the attention. i think that he is enjoying this scrum in the republican party, trouble for the republicans is a there is a feeling of none of the above, there is a great sense, more than i ever remember -- there is always some of that but more than i ever remember in one party, a sense of none of the above. >> >> nobody was to rally around. i would say for the present, and this, call scrum, the president has the benefit it the way women look at him and believe me, women are an important part of the election.
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it turns out obama uses the word, too, because you can do a search. then the democrats decided to make an issue of housewives. these awards you thought went away but in politics -- are words you fought with the way in politics. >> hope not any -- connection. >> this was a progression chronologically. what is the of the word -- choice? euphemism for abortion, a choice. but then ann romney, when she was accused of never working today in her life -- unfortunate description a democratic person close to obama had used, then ann romney came back and said it was my choice to stay at home. that was a loaded word and ann was no dummy. what it implied was, no, democrats actually want you to have an abortion -- they don't want you to stay home with kids. if you don't work you are sort of less of a woman. with that one word, she conveyed all of this and it started to help -- and romney needed help -- with women voters. instead of a well crafted speech, people using words like shillelaghs -- an irish word. [laughter] >> you are writing a book now on words that pre
it turns out obama uses the word, too, because you can do a search. then the democrats decided to make an issue of housewives. these awards you thought went away but in politics -- are words you fought with the way in politics. >> hope not any -- connection. >> this was a progression chronologically. what is the of the word -- choice? euphemism for abortion, a choice. but then ann romney, when she was accused of never working today in her life -- unfortunate description a democratic...
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tavis: obama didn't raise it, mccain didn't raise it, the moderators, sadly, never ask about it. fast-forward four years and one out of two americans is either in poverty or low income; in poverty or, as i say, or near poverty. how, then, this time around, does poverty get to be a front burner issue between obama and romney? >> poverty only gets to be a front burner issue in our country if people demand it. we need, of course, leadership. we can hope for leadership. we had our robert kennedy, we had our paul wellstone, we have others who are in the house and senate. but really, the people running for office tend to respond to people who push, so we have to be talking about organizing, we have to be talking about people who are doing what we're doing here and reaching people in terms of the mass media and all the other ways we communicate. i think young people are very important to this. i think that the next level of people up who are also being shafted here, who are not technically poor but who have those low-wage jobs and are absolutely stuck, if you look at all the mobility st
tavis: obama didn't raise it, mccain didn't raise it, the moderators, sadly, never ask about it. fast-forward four years and one out of two americans is either in poverty or low income; in poverty or, as i say, or near poverty. how, then, this time around, does poverty get to be a front burner issue between obama and romney? >> poverty only gets to be a front burner issue in our country if people demand it. we need, of course, leadership. we can hope for leadership. we had our robert...
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he made a better case for barack obama and joe biden and barack obama and joe biden had ever made. the other thing about bill clinton's speech is he had the ultimate line in it -- "this economy was so bad even i could not have fixed it." >> i think you pointed out in the opening of the show what was the worst political moment, which was the clink east would wasting 12 minutes of prime time when just before, you have had these truly heart rending stories -- heartwarming stories about the humanity of the republican challenger, and also a bio which was not shown. that was a terrible tactical error. >> the reason why clinton's speech worked was because clinton is a force larger the nature and people knew it was bill clinton giving that speech. so many political speeches are written by someone else, and they read that way. "inside washington finally -- >> finally, predictions for the year ahead in the supreme court. it will be a gun so year involving the supreme court possibly striking down the voting rights act, the subject of gay marriage, and even weather you can patent a gene. anywa
he made a better case for barack obama and joe biden and barack obama and joe biden had ever made. the other thing about bill clinton's speech is he had the ultimate line in it -- "this economy was so bad even i could not have fixed it." >> i think you pointed out in the opening of the show what was the worst political moment, which was the clink east would wasting 12 minutes of prime time when just before, you have had these truly heart rending stories -- heartwarming stories...
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. >> president obama rejects the keystone pipeline project. >> no other way to put it. the president is selling out american jobs for politics. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> ok, first, housekeeping. full disclosure for our pbs audiences. we are putting this together friday, we have to get it out to our pbs stations that day but the primary is saturday. so if you are watching this program on sunday and it appears dated, it is. but we soldier on. the field of candidates for the republican presidential nomination is narrowed to four. jon huntsman, rick perry got the message this week. voters just were not interested in what they had to offer. huntsman endorses and romney, perry endorses gingrich. thursday night the remaining candidates took the stage in charleston. here is a sample. >> i am steady, i am solid, i am not going to go out and do things you are going to worry about. >> i am tired of the elite media at protecting barack obama. >> and on the question whether mitt romney would release several years of tax returns. >> maybe. i
. >> president obama rejects the keystone pipeline project. >> no other way to put it. the president is selling out american jobs for politics. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> ok, first, housekeeping. full disclosure for our pbs audiences. we are putting this together friday, we have to get it out to our pbs stations that day but the primary is saturday. so if you are watching this program on sunday and it appears dated, it is. but we...
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today president obama welcomed his predecessor george w. bush back to the who is for the hanging of his official portrait. as reported, it was really quite a jolly affair. >> he's back. this time it's permanent. [applause] >> the portrait of george w. and laura bush will hang inside the white house continuing the tradition of honoring former presidents that date all the way back to george washington. >> when the british burned the white house as fred mentioned in 1814, dolly madison famously saved this portrait of the first george w. [laughter] now michele, if anything happens -- [laughter] there's your man. [laughter] >> there was a lot of laughter. but tears, too. as mr. bush paid tribute to another former president, his dad. >> i am honored to be hanging near a man who gave me the greatest gift possible, unconditional love, and that would be number 41. >> painted by an artist from his home state of texas, mr. bush is portrayed standing in front of the desk given by a queen. explaining how the cares of presidential office transcend party
today president obama welcomed his predecessor george w. bush back to the who is for the hanging of his official portrait. as reported, it was really quite a jolly affair. >> he's back. this time it's permanent. [applause] >> the portrait of george w. and laura bush will hang inside the white house continuing the tradition of honoring former presidents that date all the way back to george washington. >> when the british burned the white house as fred mentioned in 1814, dolly...
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go easy on the obama/biden administration on their record >> the obama or the o'biden administration? >> the own/biden administration. >> woodruff: he'll follow mrs. romney who will give us a soft per picture. >> i think for her the key has to be frailty. she has to show there have been set backs in the romney family. that a family who looks so affluent and perfect that they've learned something from failure and understand failure. >> ifill: she is a breast cancer survivor and still struggles with multiple sclerosis so if she told her own story it would be... we also expect that of first ladies war would be first ladys that they soften their husbands we look at thaw howe they look and how much he loves her. >> we expect... it's funny, we americans don't have a royal family so our first family becomes the royal family and we want them to be an act happy family. we cover them that way so we expect the ideal wife who gazes adoringly at her husband and the children are all well behaved and we know that's never the case in anybody's life and the ideal husband who's steadfast. >> >> he was
go easy on the obama/biden administration on their record >> the obama or the o'biden administration? >> the own/biden administration. >> woodruff: he'll follow mrs. romney who will give us a soft per picture. >> i think for her the key has to be frailty. she has to show there have been set backs in the romney family. that a family who looks so affluent and perfect that they've learned something from failure and understand failure. >> ifill: she is a breast cancer...
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it was obama who tripled our troops and doubled our spending. this is america as a country which has made a decision and it is a quicksand and it ultimately out and i am not sure how much we've changed. >> i guess you can agree with general-admiral gingrich that if we don't get the apology, we ought to just get out. >> no, i don't agree. >> saw the else happened in afghanistan, it to -- something else happened in afghanistan,. decimating al qaeda was the purpose for going into afghanistan t. we also used to be area to get osama bin laden. how do we disengage -- >> how do you and keep tabs on pakistan at the same time? >> that is the problem. >> the idea that people think of pakistan as a problem in our dealing with afghanistan, but it is the opposite. afghanistan has strategic value only as a place where you can intervene in pakistan. evacuated it will be a problem. the only answer is to have india take our role in be area, because it worries about islamic radicalism. >> indian and pakistanis have always been close. [laughter] after iraq and afg
it was obama who tripled our troops and doubled our spending. this is america as a country which has made a decision and it is a quicksand and it ultimately out and i am not sure how much we've changed. >> i guess you can agree with general-admiral gingrich that if we don't get the apology, we ought to just get out. >> no, i don't agree. >> saw the else happened in afghanistan, it to -- something else happened in afghanistan,. decimating al qaeda was the purpose for going into...
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president obama was right. he said that was outrageous to have deficits as high as half a trillion dollars under the bush years. he was right. but then he put in place deficits twice that size. for everyone of his four years. and his forecast for the next four years is more deficits. almost that large. so that's the next area i'm different than president bush. then let's take the last one. championing small business. our party has been focused on big business too long. i came through small business. i understand how hard it is to start a small business. that's why everything i'll do is designed to help small businesses grow. and add jobs. i want to keep their taxes down. on small business. i want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise not crushing it. the thing i find most troubling about obama care, well, it's a long list. but one of the things i find most troubling is when you ask small businesses what they think about it, they tell you it keeps them from hiring more people. my priority i
president obama was right. he said that was outrageous to have deficits as high as half a trillion dollars under the bush years. he was right. but then he put in place deficits twice that size. for everyone of his four years. and his forecast for the next four years is more deficits. almost that large. so that's the next area i'm different than president bush. then let's take the last one. championing small business. our party has been focused on big business too long. i came through small...
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president obama holds a 73-21% lead over mitt romney among latino voters. that's up from the 65-26 advantage he held six weeks ago. >> latino's will decide the election in colorado, nevada, north carolina, florida. >> because? >> because in a very close election latino voters tend to decide which way to vote. it happened in 2000 with president george w. bush in florida and it's going to happen again this year. >> there was a report from the pew hispanic center a few days ago saying a record 24 million, 24 million latinos are eligible to vote. >> right. >> but their turnout rate has consistently lagged behind whites and blacks. >> not that much. the latino decision polls are usually very accurate because they're polling specifically latino voters, registered voters and the unthus see amp level was very low. in the last poll it had increased to 82%. >> that's understandable. >> romney? >> no, we're getting a little bit closer to the election. people are paying more attention to the election. when you see the polls and try to understand why the numbers are so
president obama holds a 73-21% lead over mitt romney among latino voters. that's up from the 65-26 advantage he held six weeks ago. >> latino's will decide the election in colorado, nevada, north carolina, florida. >> because? >> because in a very close election latino voters tend to decide which way to vote. it happened in 2000 with president george w. bush in florida and it's going to happen again this year. >> there was a report from the pew hispanic center a few days...
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barack obama and his team or mitt romney and his team? >> i am a democrat and have been a lifelong democrat. i would -- well, i don't know who the team will be, i would hope tim would agree to stay another term years. >> rose: and you think tim would be ready to leave? >> but i would say -- i happen to support the president in his economic, and his economic team. i believe our crisis was so severe that it was not a four-year fix. if we look at housing today, our housing problem was not created -- it was created by both the democrats and republicans, we had policies that were really obscene, we had in 20,078,000,000 unsold homes in this country, we need a million to a million and a half homes every year to, to accommodate immigration, family formation and replacement. >> rose: everybody says to me warren buffett on down all-round say to me, you know, we will not have an economic recovery until we fix the housing crisis. >> but it is almost fixed, it is just time. we are about a year away from the excess inventory being behind us so you are
barack obama and his team or mitt romney and his team? >> i am a democrat and have been a lifelong democrat. i would -- well, i don't know who the team will be, i would hope tim would agree to stay another term years. >> rose: and you think tim would be ready to leave? >> but i would say -- i happen to support the president in his economic, and his economic team. i believe our crisis was so severe that it was not a four-year fix. if we look at housing today, our housing...
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they are committed to president obama's defeat in november. and i think the question of israel is useful to them as a vehicle for mobilizing support for the republican candidate, whoever that's going to be. >> driving a wedge between obama and american jews and maybe between american jews and blacks who have been a strong, long coalition for -- >> well, but also, i mean, garnering the votes of christian evangelicals. there's many more christian evangelicals in this country than there are jews. and and so to argue that this democratic president is weak on israel is a way, i think, to try to draw votes for the republican candidate, whoever it's going to be. i don't mean that kristol and bauer aren't themselves committed to the security of israel, but i think that in a campaign like this, especially when it occurs during an election year, there's something more going and here than simply a concern about israeli security. >> you write in your new essay that president obama's strategy seems to be to thicken america's global presence throughout the
they are committed to president obama's defeat in november. and i think the question of israel is useful to them as a vehicle for mobilizing support for the republican candidate, whoever that's going to be. >> driving a wedge between obama and american jews and maybe between american jews and blacks who have been a strong, long coalition for -- >> well, but also, i mean, garnering the votes of christian evangelicals. there's many more christian evangelicals in this country than...
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president obama doesn't get this. he can't fix the economy because he gn doesn't know how it was built. so in 70 days when the american people walk into the voting booth, what should we do? should throw him out. because we can do better, we can do a lot better. and it starts with throwing out the politician who doesn't get it and electing a new precede whpresidentwho does. mitt romney comes from a family of builders. his father built houses, built businesses, built industry. george romney was a can-do kind of guy and he was fond of the whole saying that when things are at their worst, that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. well delegates, this is that time and this is that place. [cheers and applause] we're here to preserve this country the same way we built it, by exercising our god-given right to set a new course. so who wetter t better to turn e than a man dead gated his career for doing just that, for the stage and businesses and olympic games. president romney, boy i like the sound of that. p
president obama doesn't get this. he can't fix the economy because he gn doesn't know how it was built. so in 70 days when the american people walk into the voting booth, what should we do? should throw him out. because we can do better, we can do a lot better. and it starts with throwing out the politician who doesn't get it and electing a new precede whpresidentwho does. mitt romney comes from a family of builders. his father built houses, built businesses, built industry. george romney was a...
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barack obama is dead even in the jebreal election. it's a great six months and he's still dead in this general election. in 1992 bill clinton was third in may of 1992 behind ross perot and george w. bush. this race will get to the summer. he will be damaged, mitt romney will be damaged. if he's a good politician and puts together a good convention this race is within three or four points no matter what. we're just in that environment. >> rose: look at the exam -- >> carly let me jump in. i slightly disagree with matthew in the sense i don't think it's even. i think obama's got a clear advantage when you look at key states it's changed a lot in the last month. however let me say this. talking to people who have been with obama, he is programly can dented whether he's talking to the new york town or down here boarding on caul cocky. >> i think he's way across the border. >> you want this economy stall. let there be a war in iran and oil prices soar and "all bets are off." >> rose: what is defining the republican race. >> mitt romney is
barack obama is dead even in the jebreal election. it's a great six months and he's still dead in this general election. in 1992 bill clinton was third in may of 1992 behind ross perot and george w. bush. this race will get to the summer. he will be damaged, mitt romney will be damaged. if he's a good politician and puts together a good convention this race is within three or four points no matter what. we're just in that environment. >> rose: look at the exam -- >> carly let me...
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and you know, obama managed, for better or for worse, the response to the recession, did not come down heavily on the bank, did not -- no one's in jail. there's been some scolding but nothing's really happened to the hedge fund managers, to the big banks, and yet that money is not 100% but close to 100% going to romney this time because those interests see in romney and see in the republicans that their agenda is going to be pushed to where they want it, that it is a more extreme pro-business deregulatory climate, that the republican party is eager to usher in. >> both sides can play this game, but republicans have an inherent advantage in their natural constituency has a lot more money. outside expenditures the kind of money we refer to as dark money is, you know, about two-thirds two three-quarters republican, and the rest is on the democratic side. i'm sure democrats and liberals in general would take more of that kind of money if it were available but it's not. >> "mother jones" was the first i saw that used the term "dark money" what are you after there? why that term? >> searchin
and you know, obama managed, for better or for worse, the response to the recession, did not come down heavily on the bank, did not -- no one's in jail. there's been some scolding but nothing's really happened to the hedge fund managers, to the big banks, and yet that money is not 100% but close to 100% going to romney this time because those interests see in romney and see in the republicans that their agenda is going to be pushed to where they want it, that it is a more extreme pro-business...
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and you know, obama managed, for better or for worse, the response to the recession, did not come down heavily on the bank, did not -- no one's in jail. there's been some scolding but nothing's really happened to the hedge fund managers, to the big banks, and yet that money is not 100% but close to 100% going to romney this time because those interests see in romney and see in the republicans that their agenda is going to be pushed to where they want it, that it is a more extreme pro-business deregulatory climate, that the republican party is eager to usher in. >> both sides can play this game, but republicans have an inherent advantage in their natural constituency has a lot more money. outside expenditures the kind of money we refer to as dark money is, you know, about two-thirds two three-quarters republican, and the rest is on the democratic side. i'm sure democrats and liberals in general would take more of that kind of money if it were available but it's not. >> "mother jones" was the first i saw that used the term "dark money" what are you after there? why that term? >> searchin
and you know, obama managed, for better or for worse, the response to the recession, did not come down heavily on the bank, did not -- no one's in jail. there's been some scolding but nothing's really happened to the hedge fund managers, to the big banks, and yet that money is not 100% but close to 100% going to romney this time because those interests see in romney and see in the republicans that their agenda is going to be pushed to where they want it, that it is a more extreme pro-business...
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the. >> rose: president obama will carry new york? >> i think this is a good chance. and the same thing is true of my friends in texas. it's such a red state right now that if mitt romney left town and never came back they would still vote republican. >> rose: you talk about these smart people and you're smart yourself. it's almost even and i saw the latest poll 46-46. >> if i wasn't even now it would become almost even someplace down the line. that's just the way the elections have been for a long time. it gets close at the end. >> rose: could you please lay off of mitt romney's dog? >> (laughs) >> rose: seamus is a good dog. >> he's a good dog and i'm on his side! >> rose: wt's the problem? >> he was on the roof of a car on a highway. >> rose: can i tell you when i drive to the country you know what barkley wants to do? barkley want knows roll down the window so he can put his head out the window. >> if when this had first come up in 2008 mitt when someone said "why did you drive for 12 hours with your dog on the roof of the car" had said "look, i had five boys unde
the. >> rose: president obama will carry new york? >> i think this is a good chance. and the same thing is true of my friends in texas. it's such a red state right now that if mitt romney left town and never came back they would still vote republican. >> rose: you talk about these smart people and you're smart yourself. it's almost even and i saw the latest poll 46-46. >> if i wasn't even now it would become almost even someplace down the line. that's just the way the...
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bush during the 2000 and voted for obama in 2008, some high income voters who didn't like what obama was saying about the $250,000 expending the bush tax cuts. i found voters who are saying i think i might go for mitt romney this year after voting for obama four years ago. the reason i wanted to talk to hispanic voters is because what's interesting and happening in the polls in colorado is as mitt romney is gaining among independentents you see obama widening his lead on latino voters. this is on the votes in black month about limiting deportation for young people. i wanted to go see if that has sort of ignited enthusiasm on hispanic voters and i was surprised to see not at all. i found voters who voted for the first time in 2008, really exspite to be a part of history and has been absolutely deflated and unexcited about what obama has done. when you talk to hispanic voters in colorado immigration is not the first thing that comes up at least in my conversations, it was the economy. and on that, they're just as disappointed as what you hear from other voters. >> you're in iowa tonigh
bush during the 2000 and voted for obama in 2008, some high income voters who didn't like what obama was saying about the $250,000 expending the bush tax cuts. i found voters who are saying i think i might go for mitt romney this year after voting for obama four years ago. the reason i wanted to talk to hispanic voters is because what's interesting and happening in the polls in colorado is as mitt romney is gaining among independentents you see obama widening his lead on latino voters. this is...
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did the programs that were instituted by the government under both president obama and president obama... president bush, did they address the problem? how much and how it will >> well, i'd say this is non-partisan because i do think the obama administration largely continued the same thing of the bush administration which to my extent was to put off the problem, to kick the can down the road in a lot of ways. i look at the fundamental issue of our housing market is a combination of weak demand and excess supply. so some of these things were aimed at keeping foreclosures off the market which would lower supply but ultimately they drove out the problem. you know, i'm of the opinion that if we had taken the 30% decline in six months rather than four years we'd be in a much healthier spot today. so ultimately market fundamentals asserted themselves whether you wanted them to or not. it was really a matter of the speed of adjustment. >> and you're station measures taken by the government made the problem worse? >> in many cases i think they did. you encourage people to stay in place. i lik
did the programs that were instituted by the government under both president obama and president obama... president bush, did they address the problem? how much and how it will >> well, i'd say this is non-partisan because i do think the obama administration largely continued the same thing of the bush administration which to my extent was to put off the problem, to kick the can down the road in a lot of ways. i look at the fundamental issue of our housing market is a combination of weak...
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>> because they believed that they had obama over a barrel. and that they could force him to do what they wanted, which was to radically downsize all domestic discretionary spending. and he wasn't going to do it. and that's how we got to that situation. >> what do you think's going to happen after the election, no matter who wins? because the popular expectation is that we're heading toward a fiscal cliff. are we going to go through in those few months between the election and the inauguration, what we went through with the deficit crisis that you just talked about? >> i would say the likeliest possibility is that we'll get some sort of short-term extension of the provisions to kick the can down the road a little bit. now, i'm not saying that will happen. there's also a possibili if past is prologue that the tea party faction in the house could dig in its heels and say no, just as they did with the debt ceiling crisis. >> and what then would be the consequence of that, as you can anticipate it? >> the consequence would be immediate and severe
>> because they believed that they had obama over a barrel. and that they could force him to do what they wanted, which was to radically downsize all domestic discretionary spending. and he wasn't going to do it. and that's how we got to that situation. >> what do you think's going to happen after the election, no matter who wins? because the popular expectation is that we're heading toward a fiscal cliff. are we going to go through in those few months between the election and the...
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obama is not that kind of guy. he is a more intro verted guy so it's not like we are blood brothers together, we played football together, we played golf together that is not there. >> rose: so the election will depend as they head to the crucial period between now and november 6s, on the debate. >> right. >> rose: can, i mean is there other than something happening, is it unlikely that something happening being an external event in the international front or b, a debate that is so one-sided which i think is unlikely to be one-sided. the best that could happen would say to me is that the person who is less well-known or the person who has the most interest in changing the impression of himself can achieve that. >> right. >> rose: that would be reagan. >> what argument is romney going to make? what is the bumper sticker. what is the core argument. and so if romney said listen, first what makes you thin think-- what make you think the next four years will be better than the last four that is one good argument. second
obama is not that kind of guy. he is a more intro verted guy so it's not like we are blood brothers together, we played football together, we played golf together that is not there. >> rose: so the election will depend as they head to the crucial period between now and november 6s, on the debate. >> right. >> rose: can, i mean is there other than something happening, is it unlikely that something happening being an external event in the international front or b, a debate that...
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. >> rose: so then in 2008 you had an election in which barack obama was elected. barack obama elected with the support of the teachers union. >> uh-huh. >> rose: but he also indicated that he had some questions about that. and then he appoint arnie duncan to be his secretary of education. and then they began to enunciate their own education policies. you seem to be-- have come to very much be in opposition to those policies and the road to the top. >> right. well, race to the top -- >> rose: race to the top. >> race to the top, to me, is just an extension of no child left behind. i came -- >> rose: in that? >> i came to be very critical of no child left behind because it really is distorting the priorities of the school. it has testing, testing, testing. the testing has gotten totally out of control in this country, high-stakes testing where reading and math is the only thing that counts because that's all that's tested. whether it's the arts, foreign languages, history, civics-- those things that don't couldn't, just reading and math. and there are schools spendi
. >> rose: so then in 2008 you had an election in which barack obama was elected. barack obama elected with the support of the teachers union. >> uh-huh. >> rose: but he also indicated that he had some questions about that. and then he appoint arnie duncan to be his secretary of education. and then they began to enunciate their own education policies. you seem to be-- have come to very much be in opposition to those policies and the road to the top. >> right. well, race...
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so i think he blew it. >> by the way i think obama blew one thing on the bush answer, obama didn't tie himself to clinton which usually helps and i am surprised he passed up that opportunity. that was one of the few opportunities he passed up, what this debate was, was the exact opposite of denver, the agenda was set by barack obama. it was fought on his turf. i agree he didn't talk a great deal about what he was going to do but romney was on the offensive that's the exact opposite in denver and some of the particulars mentioned earlier, women and immigration and the auto bailout, setting this agenda do i think it transforms the election, of course not but we are playing to a very small group of per jailedables and if there is any movement which i think there clearly was to romney in that group my guess is it has stopped, it hasn't moved back to obama but stopped. >> rose: so it keyed keys it up -- go ahead. >> one of the interesting things is, al talks about this small group of remaining undecided voters, these are what people call low information voters, they are not reading massive
so i think he blew it. >> by the way i think obama blew one thing on the bush answer, obama didn't tie himself to clinton which usually helps and i am surprised he passed up that opportunity. that was one of the few opportunities he passed up, what this debate was, was the exact opposite of denver, the agenda was set by barack obama. it was fought on his turf. i agree he didn't talk a great deal about what he was going to do but romney was on the offensive that's the exact opposite in...